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John Timpson reports from Bournemouth on the opening of this year's
Liberaf Party Conference. In London Brian Redhead
0.45* Prayer for the Day with CANON DAVID STANCLIFFE
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
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7 30 8 30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Part
8.57 Weather; travel
Today Tuesday Call turns Its attention to student life and student problems and offers information and advice on how to get the best out of college, both academically and socially. Put your questions to
Martin Blakey , Welfare Officer at Leeds University
Students' Union, and Sally-Louise Sharpe. a research student at London's Imperial College
In the Chair Judith Chalmers
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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The Ultimate Relic by PHILOMENA ULYATT Read by John Keyes
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
NEM. p 46; Rejoice in God's saints (BP 73);
Psalm 32; Mark 2, vv 13-20 (NEB); 0 thou who makest souls to shine (BBC HB 225)
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Dirty Tricks
(Broadcast: Sat 2.5 pm) long wave only
Introduced by Derek Jones
Why is catmint so attractive to cats? Is it the feline equivalent of glue sniffing?
The team scents out the answers to your Wildlife Questions.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jennl Mills
Nigel Rees Invites Peter Jones Irma Kurtz
Julian Mitchell Gay Search to share their favourite quotations and identify some others.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
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Introduced by Toni Arthur Including
Cancer Relief:
ANDREA ADAMS talks to some cancer sufferers and to those who care for them.
Pick of the Paperback): JUNE KNOX-MAWER and SEBASTIAN FAULKES make their choice.
At Freddie's (6) long wave only
by SIR WALTER SCOTT (2)
A miscellany of personal comment, opinions, reflections and memories to enliven your afternoon.
Alun Jones was brought up in a conventional
Welsh non-Conformist home in Cardiff. He is now a Carthusian monk. living a life of the strictest discipline In a small, obscure French monastery near Ceyzerlat, in the Aln region of eastern France. In this rare contact with the outside world, Alun traces his spiritual journey in conversation with his brother. Huw Jones.
Producer ELWYN JONES
BBC Wales
Two on a Tower (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Young doctors fresh from medical school may be faced with telling somebody he has cancer, or that a close relative is dying. Yet formal medical training offers few opportunities to gain experience of such difficulttasks.GeoffWatts reports from the University of Manchester, where actors and video tapes are being used to introduce students to the consulting room, and examines the implications of this innovation in medical education.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Ma)or issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Today, a report by Peter Oppenhelmer. Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
Written and presented by Hugh Douglas
Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832. With the publicationof
Waverley in 1814, he virtually invented the historical novel and his lyric poems helped to bring about the Scottish tourist industry. He was descended from Border families and made his home in the Borders at Abbotsford where this programme was recorded. Walter Scott TOM FLEMING
Taking part:
ERIC ANDERSON , JENNI CALDER , IAN CAMPBELL , DAVID DAICHES and PATRICIA MAXWELL-SCOTT
Clarsach played by SAVOURNA STEVENSON
Researcher KEETA CAMPBELL Producer ALEC REID
(The full binaural effect o/ thts programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
What Help for Housewivest KEVIN MULIIERN reports on the extent to which blind women are considered eligible for the housewives' non-contributory Invalidity pension.
Introduced by Peter White
Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm
Paul Allen talks to two of the judges of this year's Booker McConnell Prize for literature about the short-list announced today and visits the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich which is exhibiting the work of Humphry Repton. landscape gardener,
1752-1818.
Producer JOHN POWELL
Peter Paterson reporting
Paul Jones meets the music makers. Producer John
(Paul Jones is in ' The Beggar's Opera at the National Theatre, London)
Clinging to the Wreckage 7: A Dependence on the Criminal Classes long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Sue MacGregor talks to
Ian Tracey. at 27 organist and master of the choristers at Liverpool Cathedral.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
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